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   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 8/18/2025 10:42 PM, JTEM wrote:   
   > On 8/18/25 8:44 PM, Dawn Flood wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 8/18/2025 12:37 PM, JTEM wrote:   
   >>> I know this. And Darwin AND YOU group with these people, believing   
   >>> what you always heard and never challenging or testing.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> No way!  Here was the prevailing view prior to Darwin:   
   >   
   > Darwin's grandfather was probably the biggest proponent of   
   > common descent in his day. Darwin was simply regurgitating   
   > what he was raised with.   
   >   
   > Darwin never looked forward, as an idiot who simply accepted   
   > what was told, he always looked backwards. This is how he   
   > could believe in such idiocy as his pangenesis. He plagiarized   
   > lamarck! That's all. And even Lamarck was hardly a trail   
   > blazer himself! It was all well tred ground...   
   >   
   > This is exactly like you:  Not educated but trained like one   
   > of Pavlov's Dogs!  The absolute easiest thing in the world   
   > would be to look at a myth such as Darwin and saying, "Yeah.   
   > What we are taught about Darwin is a myth. The jackass didn't   
   > even believe in evolution!"   
   >   
   > Well it would be easy if you didn't merely accept what was   
   > handed to you....   
   >   
   >   
   >   
      
   Darwin's original idea was evolution by natural selection, an idea that   
   he developed over the course of a few decades.  Alfred Russel Wallace   
   discovered the similar idea over the course of a few hours, wrote it up   
   and sent his manuscript across the World (Wallace was in southeast Asia   
   at the time) to Darwin!  It was Darwin's friends, Charles Lyell and   
   Joseph Hooker, who arranged for both Darwin and Wallace's papers to be   
   published simultaneously with a reading at the Linnean Society.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)